Best Indie Games on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated indie games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Indie games on Steam.
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Space Simulation Toolkit
Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.
Unravel Two
When you cut ties to the past, new bonds form. Build relationships with other Yarnys in local co-op or as a single player, fostering friendship and support as you journey together.
Sea of Solitude
When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.
Bomb Bots Arena
Send your Bomb Bots into online arenas or blast your friends off the couch locally in Bomb Bots Arena! Bomb Bots Arena is a pure multiplayer experience with every element of the game tailored to please competitive and casual gamers alike.
Methods: The Detective Competition
One hundred detectives compete against each other in a crime-solving competition.
The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier
The Walking Fish returns, this time in space, in an all-new fish comedy horror experience. Stuck on a space station, you have to solve the mystery of the Walking Fish, and escape its terror.
Poly Bridge 2
The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!
Ruins Seeker
An adventurer named Quem is the first person to step foot inside "Heaven's Ladder" in 500 years. But not long after, she's cursed by a strange, shadowy monster. Now she must reach the top of Heaven's Ladder, and hopefully, break the spell.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!
ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign
ANIME WAR — Modern Campaign transports you along with the H.E.N.T.A.I. army to one of the hottest hotspots around the globe to take down our №1 threatening enemy.
The House of Da Vinci 2
Become an apprentice of the famous Leonardo da Vinci. Solve handcrafted mechanical 3D puzzles and discover hidden secrets. Navigate through mesmerizing environments of the Italian Renaissance. Travel through time to influence your surroundings.
Drop In - VR F2P
Drop In - VR F2P is a Free to play Low poly social game space. In Early Access players will be able to hang out in a lobby, play mini games, Squad up for Apoc, Zombies or Sandbox. Missions are being actively developed. DLC will be added after the game comes out of early access.
Rhythm Fighter
This is a Roguelike Horizontal Action game that players need to follow the beat to defeat opponents. Beat to follow, fist to the bone. Face the foe, and dance to kill!
Dread X Collection
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
Summer Paws
Summer days, warm rain, magical nights! Sleeping kittens are hidden well. Can you find them?
Red Planet Farming
Become the first Agricultural Director of Mars in Red Planet Farming! This casual strategy game tasks players with producing enough food to feed a growing population of settlers on the red planet.
Veterans Online - Open Beta
Veterans Online is a thrilling top-down twin-stick shooter suited for both casual and hardcore players, featuring fun warfare with easy to learn but hard to master mechanics.
ShellShock Live
Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.
Estranged: The Departure
Estranged: The Departure follows the story of a fisherman, stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Little does he know his adventure has just begun, and the island is home to more than it first seems.
Angels of Death Episode.Eddie
"The boy made up his mind to face a cruel world." The new special edition of the psychological horror-adventure game "Angels of Death", which has also been made into an anime. The past of B4 floor master Eddie is revealed...
Space Haven
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.